From the Pennsylvania Packet, May 23, 1780.
On this day..
- 1506: James Tyrrell, Princes in the Tower murderer?
- 1916: Not Constance Markievicz, "I do wish your lot had the decency to shoot me"
- 1801: Franz Troglauer
- 1791: William Jones, "in a country out of the reach of my enemies"
- 1955: Johnson William Caldwell
- 1887: Theodore Baker, who knew how it feels to be hanged
- 1958: Vivian Teed, a first and a last
- 1970: Ibrahim Husain Muhammad
- 1972: Deniz Gezmis, Yusuf Aslan, and Huseyin Inan, Turkish revolutionaries
- 1904: Zenon Champoux, French degenerate
- 1777: Antoine-Francois Derues, scam artist
- 1916: Syrian and Lebanese nationalists, who christen "Martyr's Day"